Active exploitation of CVE-2025-11001 has been observed in the wild. A security researcher has also publicly released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2025-11001.
The PoC allows attackers to abuse symbolic-link handling to write files outside of the intended extraction folder, which in some scenarios, can enable arbitrary code execution.
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Source: NHS Digital
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